Recent content by Chicoan

Would you share the URL of this? I'd love to see similar data for other Thruway routes. Thanks.

I hope that some of you with long memories would help me with this: in discussing the current food-and-drink status with a friend, a memory popped up of drinking REALLY bad wine on Amtrak years ago. It would have been out west, possibly on CA-supported trains or LD. The wine I believe was from...

Hello--did a similar trip a few weeks ago (actually we flew in and took Amtrak #3 home, the reverse of your plan). The "on-site" airport car rental in ABQ is actually a few blocks from the airport. We stayed at the Best Western Airport hotel; their shuttle both picked us up and later took us to...

However, the Jefferson Lines timetable shows them with new routes from MT and ID to Spokane. Anyone know if Amtrak might utilize those routes for Empire Builder connections?

http://chicoenterpriserecord.ca.newsmemory.com/publink.php?shareid=03e310015 More about the possible Oroville bus and/or train service on San Joaquin extension

I believe I have read elsewhere that the Oroville proposal, odd as it is, is related to the adding of service to Natomas. If I have this right, they feel they have the ability and can get an OK from whichever railroads are involved, to run some San Joaquin trains to Natomas (and eventually on to...

http://media.amtrak.com/2017/04/new-amtrak-thruway-shuttle-service-maricopa-maricopa-connecting-sunset-limitedtexas-eagle-passengers-phoenix-tempe/ Here's the shuttle info. On a different note, the Amtrak site also now shows a couple of Wyoming bus routes (Casper, Cheyenne, Buffalo). But no...

Hello-- will be arriving in Spokane on the eastbound Empire Builder from Portland, and looking for a hotel convenient to the station if possible, as well as tips on how to spend the next day. Thanks!

Following up on Eric's post -- having more Thruways where both beginning and end points are Amtrak cities (bolded in his list like Baltimore-Harrisburg), to get business both dropping-off-from and picking-up-for a train seems better than a bus that serves only as a feeder to one train.

How about Tucson-San Diego? Omaha-Kansas City? Related comment: the Amtrak.com System timetable's maps (and the National System map) are outdated in regard to showing Thruway bus routes.

Just wanted to mention that Wendy from John Steel has been ill, now back at work. I can't fault her for not replying to my interest since she was in the hospital!

After I read this suggestion, I looked unsuccessfully online for Fresh Tracks. I did find John Steel which has great options on their website but they don't answer their phone or respond to messages!

Thanks, folks!

Hello -- would very much appreciate your thoughts on any or all of these questions: 1) Taking the Skeena one-way in mid-late Sept (scenery and weather) 2) Which direction? (I am currently thinking of ferry to Pr Rupert, Skeena eastbound to Jasper) 3) Overnight hotel in Pr George...

Hello -- just tried to log onto the amtrakguestrewards.com site for the first time in months. Does anyone know if it's having a temporary disruption or what is happening? This site can’t be reachedamtrakguestrewards.com refused to connect.